On Wednesday an Italian investigator told the media that the Italian police used the Google Maps app to capture a top mafia fugitive who had been on the run for nearly 20 years.
Gioacchino Gammino, 61, was captured in Galapagar, Spain, after a two-year search. He was living under a false name. The village is close to Madrid, Spain’s capital.
A Google Maps street view photo of a man who resembled him standing in front of fruit stall was vital in launching a thorough inquiry.
Nicola Altiero, deputy director of the Italian anti-mafia police unit (DIA), said, ‘The photograph helped us to confirm the investigation we were building up by conventional ways.’
Gammino, a member of the Sicilian mafia gang Stidda, fled Rome’s Rebibbia prison in 2002 and was sentenced to life in prison for for a murder committed earlier in 2003.
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